Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson with Kim McLarin. This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President.(Brief article)(Book review)

Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson with Kim McLarin. This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President. Harper: HarperCollins. Apr. 2009. c.356p, photogs, index. ISBN 978-0-06-135347-5. $26.99. AUTOBIOG

After 14 years of civil war, corruption, and economic deterioration, the people of Liberia resurrected their country's battered democracy by electing Sirleaf as Africa's first woman president. In her 2006 inaugural address, Sirleafmade a promise to her people: "We are making our beloved Liberia home once again." In this memoir, the woman known to her compatriots as "Ma Ellen" shows how her life is entwined with her country's story. She vividly …